We are seeking applications from dance artists or companies based in the North (priority is given to artists based in Yorkshire) to take part in our Dance Partner Projects 2025-26
Dance Partner Projects is open to dance artists or companies who are based in the North (priority is given to artists based in Yorkshire). The programme aims to provide dance artists/ companies at different career stages with an opportunity to research and develop a new or early-stage artistic project.
The 3 artists or companies selected for Dance Partner Projects will benefit from:
Through our ongoing partnership with Tin Arts, we are committed to supporting one artist with a learning disability and/or autism through this programme. In addition to the support outlined above, this artist/company will benefit from:
Are you learning disabled and/or autistic? Are you ready to take the next steps in your performing arts career?
Join us on Saturday 8 February 2025, 12pm-4pm for our Academy Open Day.
Meet our friendly team, join interactive workshops, listen into Q&A sessions, have a go at arts and crafts, and sit back and enjoy a range of live performances.
It will be a jam-packed day where you can experience a day-in-the-life of one of our Academy students and find out what Mind the Gap can offer you!
Mind the Gap runs a wide range of performing arts courses that run Monday – Friday, at all different learning levels, led by highly experienced tutors who bring out the best in each and every student. So, if you are just wanting to have some fun and meet new people, or if you are ready for a new challenge and meet a new goal, Mind the Gap has something for you!
Tickets are free of charge.
We are now recruiting for a Young Lyric Trainee
The role will work across all strands of the Young Lyric department. Education, Talent Development, Inclusion and Open Access.
The job is to help with projects, finding new people, and reaching out to others. You will work with Young Lyric Producers to help young people in West London be creative and aim high.
This position is kindly supported by John Lyon’s Charity to help more disabled people work
in the arts.
The Young Lyric Trainee is a job for a young SEND (Special educational needs and disabilities) person aged 18 to 29 who wants to work in theatre. If you get an interview, a charity called Pursuing Independent Paths will help you get ready for the interview. They will also help you do your job for the first 9 weeks. We will give them your contact info so they can help you get ready for the interview.
Join our Open Rehearsals in Bristol, Bournemouth, Birmingham, Cardiff or London!
Is playing with a Regional NOYO Ensemble for you? If you’re interested in joining from September 2025, a great way to find out is to join one of our Open Rehearsals in person or online in January, February and March 2025.
This is your chance to watch a rehearsal, meet some of the Music Leaders and musicians in your region, and ask any questions you might have.
Open Rehearsals are relaxed and will take place where we rehearse, in accessible venues.
Applications for Regional NOYO Ensembles will be open from 14 February – 31 March 2025 for 11-25 year-old musicians.
We also welcome applications from young disabled people with musical potential who might not yet play an instrument but control eyegaze technology or head trackers in a way that could transfer to playing the Clarion accessible instrument.
Details of NOYO Open Rehearsals in Bristol, Birmingham, Bournemouth, London and Cardiff can be found below:
Bristol NOYO Ensemble, Beacon Music Centre, BS10 5SJ
Birmingham NOYO Ensemble, Birmingham Symphony Hall, B1 2EA
Bournemouth NOYO Ensemble, The Spire, Poole, BH15 1DF
London NOYO Ensemble, Milton Court, EC2Y 9BH
Cardiff NOYO Ensemble, Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, CF10 3ER
Every year, we run courses around the UK for young people ages 14 to 25 who want to become members of the National Youth Theatre.
Entry to these courses is via audition only, and auditions are held between October 2024 and March 2025. There are three different routes you can take to audition, depending on where you’re based and how much availability you have:
You can only audition via one route each year, so have a read through each one before applying to decide which option works best for you.
Our Trainee Creative Producer will be an imaginative, highly organised, dynamic and articulate visually impaired person with experience of working in the performing arts.
Extant is the UK’s leading professional performing arts company that explores visual impairment to create unique and innovative artistic experiences, placing visually impaired people at the centre of all it does: from the productions we create, to the artists we support, to the audiences we perform to and the participants we work with. Extant is an award-winning company and are funded by Arts Council England as a National Portfolio Organisation as well as several trusts and foundations.
Since our inception in 1997 we have produced 8 ground-breaking national/international theatre productions led by visually impaired artists, including pioneering work on 3 site-specific and multi-sensory productions. We have developed 11 visually impaired-led Associate Artist productions since 2016 and our pioneering Pathways programme was the first programme in the UK to support emerging visually impaired artists. We have supported the career development of over 250 visually impaired artists and our ongoing programme of training, participation and access consultancy provides a 360 approach of interlinked activity for visually impaired participants, audiences and artists.
Start: May/June 2025, fixed term contract ending October 2027
3 days per week
Location: Hybrid – the TCP expected to be in the Extant office at Brixton House, London regularly to build relationships with Extant staff. We are open to supporting non-London based candidates to undertake the traineeship.
START is the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre's free 6 week programme for young people aged 16 to 25, who live in West London, who are not currently in education, employment, or training.
START provides a space for you to creatively explore the world of performance, working over six weeks to create a new piece of theatre that responds to the themes of a Lyric Main House production, led by theatre professionals. Through engaging with drama activities, skill sharing, and watching live performances, our START cohort will build on their self-confidence, collaboration skills, emotional resilience, and self-esteem. Through this, the cohort will cultivate a group ethic of inclusivity, accessibility, encouragement, respect and affirmation. This project is underpinned by a Bronze Arts Award accreditation.
‘START let me explore my interests without anyone judging me, I just tried everything! It was so validating to just be myself, how I want to be. START was like making a family- now I feel like I can do anything.’ – Participant, 2024
What is START?
Access to Work can help you get or stay in work if you have a physical or mental health condition or disability.
The support you get will depend on your needs. Through Access to Work, you can apply for:
Creative Youth Network (CYN) is committed to providing young people with new and exciting opportunities to broaden their skills and prepare them for life as an adult.
Creative Youth Network is a growing charity working with young people across the West of England. By building long lasting relationships, offering courses, support, drop ins and a range of arts and performance programmes we aim to help vulnerable young people reach their full potential.
Creative Youth Network also owns and manages a number of properties where we run our youth services, such as youth clubs and events. Trustees are volunteers with a passion for young people. The trustee role is unpaid, but the money you spend on travelling to meetings can be claimed and reimbursed. A full induction will be provided, and trustees are expected to attend around 7 meetings a year along with a half day strategic planning session.
City Lit’s Malorie Blackman Scholarships for Unheard Voices provide three annual awards to fund one year’s study within the Creative Writing department at City Lit.
The awards seek to support and encourage the creative and professional development of ‘unheard voices’.
The final award winners are selected by acclaimed writer, City Lit fellow and Patron of the School of Culture and Communication, Malorie Blackman OBE.
The award, worth up to £1,000 for each successful applicant, is to be spent on creative writing courses at City Lit within the year from August 31st 2025 to August 31st 2026, and can be used against a single course or group of courses appropriate to the award recipient’s creative and learning aims. Award recipients will have the opportunity to speak to a member of the Writing team who will advise and help organise a study plan to best support the development of their writing.
